You may be lucky enough
to own some items of memorabilia that cannot be tangibly valued.
Alternatively, you may have records in your collection that other
people would pay to have. The Music Master Price Guide for Record
Collectors and its follow-up, the Penguin Price Guide for Record &
CD Collectors have a number of records listed by Tim Hardin that are
considered worth collecting. These are listed below, along with the
price they are likely to sell at (in UK Pounds Sterling). The
present exchange rate is approximately £1 = $1.60. The prices given are for vinyl
albums in exceptionally good condition. Used second-hand albums
ought to cost less, depending on supply & demand. In the last
column, I've given the price these items are selling for on Gemm
(see below for link). Some of these prices are extraordinary and
should not be taken seriously. I haven't listed
CDs as they are largely still available.

Hang On to a Dream

7"

Verve

VS1504

1966

£4

£14

Lady Came from Baltimore

7"

Verve

VS1511

1967

£4

£8 - £21

Don't Make Promises

7"

Verve

VS1516

1968

£4

£3 - £16

Simple Song of Freedom

7"

CBS

4441

1969

£4

£2 - £40

Tim Hardin1

LP

Verve

5018

1966

£15

£60 - £180

This is Tim Hardin

LP

Atco

588082

1967

£20

£7 - £190

Tim Hardin 2

LP

Verve

6002

1967

£15

£7 - £216

Tim Hardin 3 - Live in Concert

LP

Verve

6010

1968

£15

£4 - £48

Tim Hardin 4

LP

Verve

6016

1969

£15

£4 - £237

Suite for Susan Moore & Damion

LP

CBS

63571

1970

£20

£3 - £51

Bird On a Wire

LP

CBS

64335

1970

£10

£5 - £34

Painted Head

LP

CBS

65209

1973

£12

£4 - £110

Archetypes (US only)

LP

MGM

4952

1973

£12

£6 - £47

Tim Hardin1 & 2 (double)

LP

Verve

2683048

1974

£15

£17

Nine

LP

GM

1004

1974

£12

£6 - £63

Unforgiven

LP

SFS

10810

1980

n/a

£68

Please note that I am not an expert in record values and there is
no point in e-mailing me to ask what the value is of an old 78 you
found in your grandmother's attic or an Elvis picture disc that
you've had since the 70s. The answer is: I don't know. If you want
this information, go to a dealer, buy one of the above-named books
or see if your valued possession is on sale at Gemm (see below).

I have listed The Unforgiven, which is
available second hand, but can cost from £50 to £100. There were
only 5000 copies made of the original and each was numbered. A mint
condition copy is worth having as a collector's item, though not
necessarily for the quality or the length of the recording. A new
reprint version of it may be obtained for $24.95 (+ delivery) from
Warrior Records at their website
www.warriorrecords.com. Last time I checked, though, it was out of
stock.

The video made prior to his Eugene Homecoming
Concert is available from AmeriCAM, 814 - 31 Avenue South, Seattle,
WA 98144. They can be contacted on 206.322.9437 or 1.800.451.3827.

If you are looking to obtain any albums by Tim, you might try
your local record store for the CDs that have been re-released by
Verve, Raven and Sony. The biggest range of new material on the web
will be available from Amazon. If you click on the link to Amazon
below, I get a small kick-back that goes towards the £230 a year it
costs to run this website.

For second hand albums (vinyl and CD), many people have managed
to get lucky by bidding on
www.ebay.com, while
the biggest collectives of second hand dealers are
www.gemm.com and
www.musicstack.com. I would also try: